Explaining the Interconnected Worlds of Global Production Networks

The fourth instalment of the ELECTRONICS - ECOLOGIES series, MANUFACTURING, was held at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore on Monday 4 December 2023.

This session, titled 'Explaining the Interconnected Worlds of Global Production Networks: Global Electronics Industry in the Post-Pandemic 2020s', was presented by Distinguished Professor Henry Yeung from the National University of Singapore.

Henry Yeung
Henry Wai-chung Yeung is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography and Co-Director of Global Production Networks Centre at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the 2022 Sir Peter Hall Award by UK’s Regional Studies Association, the 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Honors by the American Association of Geographers and the 2017 Murchison Award by UK’s Royal Geographical Society. His most recent books are Theory and Explanation in Geography (RGS-IBG Book Series, Wiley, September 2023), Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia (Innovation and Technology in the World Economy Series, Stanford University Press, June 2022), Strategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy (Cornell Studies in Political Economy Series, Cornell University Press, 2016), and Global Production Networks: Theorizing Economic Development in an Interconnected World (with Neil Coe, Oxford University Press, 2015).

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